Re: File Permission

From: Allan Nelson <anelson77388_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:07:21 -0600
Message-ID: <ffb96860812020707m588c664dhc1e7457728f04201@mail.gmail.com>


And just to add a bit, without that init.ora parameter being set Oracle specifically over rides the umask to protect the trace files from inspection by non-privileged usesrs. Sensitive transaction data can be present in the trace file.

Allan

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Martin Berger <martin.a.berger_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Naga,
> you might want to check
> _TRACE_FILES_PUBLIC
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> best regards,
> Martin
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> Martin Berger http://berx.at/
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> I have clarification on file permissions written by oracle. I have an
> oracle udump folder with 755 privilege, When i touched a file(test.sql) in
> udump it created with 644 permission according to umask value.But when
> oracle db generated trace files or alert logs it has been created with 640
> permission. Please clear my doubt how it is possible
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